Jeff Cavaliere

Again, you feel, you can feel referred pain anywhere.

But what happens next is, great, you solve that area of spasm.

Why do we get spasm?

Oftentimes it's because we're providing artificial stability to an area of weakness.

Because spasm is basically the muscles holding on and saying, I need to protect this area.

And so if the muscles around the low back are protecting that area, there's a reason for it.

It's probably because the muscles that are supposed to be stronger are not strong enough.

So that doesn't mean that you do this one thing and you're done.

Yes, you might have no back pain that day.

You might have relieved that episode.

But it means that there's an area of weakness that could benefit from strengthening it.

So you come back, you start to do glute media strengthening.

I demonstrated an exercise where you put yourself up against a wall, right?

And you stand on the leg outside the wall, furthest away from the wall.

And you let yourself drop.

Just let your hips drop, right?

They get lazy.

And when they drop like that, you're...

the only way you can get them level again is to slide yourself back towards the wall.

And that's abduction of the hip that way to get you back to level again.